The key point is, how did Michael Clayton get out of the car and escape death? If you just look at the front part of the movie, you will definitely not find a reasonable explanation. Some people say that seeing a horse, the natural scenery is good, and getting out of the car to see what else can't explain it.
If you think about the plot of the entire movie coherently, you will find the implied inevitability in the accidental event of getting off the car.
During the day before, Michael Clayton wanted to show the copy of the information he got to his boss, but the boss told him "we have been doing dirty work all the time", and then gave him $80,000 plus a three-year contract. . Although Michael Clayton was very upset, he still reluctantly accepted the reality and used 80,000 US dollars to temporarily survive the financial crisis. In the evening, he arrogantly returned to a gambling game that he hadn't been to for more than a year. Even in the gambling game, there was a little man who revealed the scars of his failure to invest in restaurants. He really couldn't sit down anymore. After he came out, he happened to run into a case. The process of handling this case showed that what he usually did was this kind of dirty work. The customer I met this time was a complete bastard, called "asshole" in English. The guy who hit someone and ran away and blamed the bad road. At this time, Michael Clayton, who didn't care about everything, severely scrubbed the bastard's words, and walked away.
At this time, driving on a suburban highway in the early morning, Michael Clayton's mood was extremely complicated.
In the family, he divorced, his children and his wife; in the
career, his professional "special consultant" is just a senior errand runner. After more than ten years of doing things, he is not a partner. He wanted to go back to work in his old firm and the lawyer was rejected by the boss. And his always loyal boss proved to be an unconscionable bastard. Their food and clothing parents, customers, are like the rubbish that hit someone and ran away. The so-called career is fundamentally useless.
Financially, except for a good-paying job (estimated annual salary of not less than 200,000 US dollars), he is basically a pauper, facing bankruptcy at the age of 45.
And the most terrible thing, in terms of personality, he knew that he had betrayed the minimum conscience for the $80,000 plus three-year contract. At the same time, he betrayed his dead friend Arthur.
He basically has nothing, he doesn't care about anything anymore. He is deeply aware that he is a complete loser. But at this moment, a picture appeared in front of him, several horses standing on the field in the morning light. This is almost the same as the picture in the red novel read by his son and his dead friend Arthur (please remember this detail). This miraculous coincidence deeply moved Michael Clayton. He got out of the car, trying to soothe his troubled thoughts. It is inevitable that people will feel sad when they have suffered a great setback. It was this miraculous coincidence that saved his life.
The whole story is that Michael Clayton was inexplicably attempted to be assassinated, and then flashed back to describe the cause and effect. Finally, Michael Clayton fought back, the Phoenix Nirvana, and was reborn from the ashes. A great movie.
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